Michelle
Indianer, D.O.
250 Blossom Hill Road
Suite 101
Los Gatos, California, 95032
phone (408) 395-4117
fax (408) 395-1441
Suite 101
Los Gatos, California, 95032
phone (408) 395-4117
fax (408) 395-1441
MindBody Psychiatry and
Health Optimization
MindBody
Psychiatry
is an approach to patient care that looks at the whole
person, also known as Integrative Psychiatry. I like
to use the word "wholistic" rather than the more
common spelling holistic to emphasize a complete
approach without "holes". This is also known as the
Bio-Psycho-Socio-Spiritual Approach to
Psychiatry. This is the only way I know to truly
help a person reach a healthy and satisfying way of
life. Too often medicine is compartmentalized and the
whole person is not truly seen by his or her
physician. I am a second generation Osteopathic
Physician. The modeling I learned
from my father who was a Family Physician and the
perspective I learned in medical school looked at the
whole mindbody connection. My style is to seek ways to
help a patient reach optimum health through looking at
multiple approaches to their care including body based
therapies, conventional "allopathic" medicine, and
nutritional medicine.
I am trained as a General Adult Psychiatrist and completed a Fellowship in Substance Abuse Treatment. I worked a few years as the Assistant Unit Chief of the Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. I obtained my Board Certification in Psychiatry opened my private practice of Psychiatry in Los Gatos, California in 1988. From the beginning I have helped my patients seek optimal health, co-treating with their general doctor. In the past decade I have been called upon more often to make suggestions for more complete diagnostic work ups and general health care for my patients. It became obvious to me in the last several years that I needed to address issues of thyroid disease, adrenal dysfunction and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to help optimize outcomes for healing in my Psychiatric patients.
Since 2005, I have completed several hundred hours of CME courses in Anti-Aging and Functional Medicine. These included advanced courses in bioidentical hormone replacement (inclucing sex hormones, thyroid and adrenal homones), nutrition and supplement use, neurotransmitter evaluation and use of neurotransmitter precursors, and other ways of addressing chronic complex diseases. These intensive courses were through the American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine, The Institute for Functional Medicine, and Worldlink Medical (with Dr. Neal Rouzier).
Anti-Aging Medicine is a relatively new field that is concerned with expanding a person's healthy life span, i.e. not just how long but how well you live. Functional Medicine is concerned with looking at the factors that impact your general health. These include "givens" that can not change like your genetics and environmental toxins from your past. Functional medicine tries to impact these given factors with various interventions including hormone replacement therapy, diet, and nutritional supplements. Both of these branches of medicine look at stress reduction, exercise and maintaining healthy eating habits. Since 2007, I have incorporated these factors in my treatment strategies to complement and enhance my more traditional psychiatric practice of psychotherapy and conventional psychiatric medications, and do consultations for patients BHRT and help with their chronic disease processes.
Another important aspect of health optimization is looking at Mindbody issues, i.e. Psychosomatic Medicine as described by Doctor John Sarno. With all of these approaches I am particularly well suited to help because of my diverse training in various forms of psychotherapy, including Psychodrama, Redicision Therapy (TA/Gestalt), Psychodynamic and Transpersonal. I am also a certified teacher of the Enneagram, having recieved training from Helen Palmer, Don Riso and Russ Hudson.
I am trained as a General Adult Psychiatrist and completed a Fellowship in Substance Abuse Treatment. I worked a few years as the Assistant Unit Chief of the Drug and Alcohol Rehabilitation Center at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center. I obtained my Board Certification in Psychiatry opened my private practice of Psychiatry in Los Gatos, California in 1988. From the beginning I have helped my patients seek optimal health, co-treating with their general doctor. In the past decade I have been called upon more often to make suggestions for more complete diagnostic work ups and general health care for my patients. It became obvious to me in the last several years that I needed to address issues of thyroid disease, adrenal dysfunction and bioidentical hormone replacement therapy to help optimize outcomes for healing in my Psychiatric patients.
Since 2005, I have completed several hundred hours of CME courses in Anti-Aging and Functional Medicine. These included advanced courses in bioidentical hormone replacement (inclucing sex hormones, thyroid and adrenal homones), nutrition and supplement use, neurotransmitter evaluation and use of neurotransmitter precursors, and other ways of addressing chronic complex diseases. These intensive courses were through the American Academy of Anti Aging Medicine, The Institute for Functional Medicine, and Worldlink Medical (with Dr. Neal Rouzier).
Anti-Aging Medicine is a relatively new field that is concerned with expanding a person's healthy life span, i.e. not just how long but how well you live. Functional Medicine is concerned with looking at the factors that impact your general health. These include "givens" that can not change like your genetics and environmental toxins from your past. Functional medicine tries to impact these given factors with various interventions including hormone replacement therapy, diet, and nutritional supplements. Both of these branches of medicine look at stress reduction, exercise and maintaining healthy eating habits. Since 2007, I have incorporated these factors in my treatment strategies to complement and enhance my more traditional psychiatric practice of psychotherapy and conventional psychiatric medications, and do consultations for patients BHRT and help with their chronic disease processes.
Another important aspect of health optimization is looking at Mindbody issues, i.e. Psychosomatic Medicine as described by Doctor John Sarno. With all of these approaches I am particularly well suited to help because of my diverse training in various forms of psychotherapy, including Psychodrama, Redicision Therapy (TA/Gestalt), Psychodynamic and Transpersonal. I am also a certified teacher of the Enneagram, having recieved training from Helen Palmer, Don Riso and Russ Hudson.
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